9-12 May 2023
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Shweta
Sharma
Senior Software Engineer at Intuit
"You are beyond defeat, get ready for your next phase now!"
"You are beyond defeat, get ready for your next phase now!"
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Session: You are beyond defeat, get ready for your next phase now!
Mid-career professionals are often met with challenges when reentering the workforce. Employers view candidates with a career break as a high-risk proposition while individuals on a career break can have doubts about their abilities to relaunch their careers. The disconnect is a problem and can be solved through two career avenues for career reentry: direct hire route and returnship programs.Key Takeaways
- Reframe your mindset
- Explore alternate recruiting programs
- Rebuild your technical knowledge
- Strategize to build a plan and execute
- Build a strong support system and leverage your network
Bio
Shweta is a software professional with almost 12 year of experience in various technologies from backend to frontend like Azure, AWS, Google cloud, .NET, Java, BackboneJS and HTML.She joined Intuit as a full time employee after 3 years of career break and has made a significant impact in her organization by demonstrating innovation and towering strength by driving adoption of tools and dashboards to strengthen observability and monitoring of the software systems and being an active participant in Tech Women @ Intuit. Prior to Intuit, she worked at Intel, Pandora, NextGen and Clickable in different roles and capacities. She is a passionate software engineer with innovative skills and strongly believes in giving back to the community. She has been evangelizing her learnings in different events inside and outside Intuit and is an active speaker at Women Who Code San Diego, WomenInTech and in other forums.
